Russian President Vladimir Putin will sign tomorrow the treaties for the annexation of the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, the Kremlin announced on September 29.
“The signing ceremony of the agreements for the entry of the new territories into Russia will take place tomorrow,” said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, at his daily press conference.
Peskov added that the event will take place in the St. George hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace at 3:00 p.m. (12:00 GMT) and will include an important speech by Putin.
The leaders of those regions arrived last night on a common flight to the Russian capital.
The day before, the leaders of Jersón, Volodímir Saldo; from Zaporizhia, Yevgueni Balitski; from Donetsk, Denis Pushilin; and from Lugansk, Leonid Pásechnik, formally asked Putin to incorporate his territories into Russia.
According to the results released on September 29 by the pro-Russian authorities with one hundred percent of the ballots counted, between 87.05 and 99.23% of voters in the territories partially controlled by Russian forces in the east and south of Ukraine supported annexation to Russia.
Both houses of the Russian parliament are expected to formally endorse the annexation agreements early next week.
The Russian Senate plans to debate that issue on October 4. Before, the incorporation has to receive the approval of the Russian Duma or Lower House, which meets for an extraordinary session a day before.
At the same time, tomorrow afternoon on Red Square there will be an event in support of the incorporation of new territories into Russia.
The Kremlin indicated that it would report later on Putin’s possible attendance at this event.
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